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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2010-01-01 03:38:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2010-01-01 03:38:35 +0200 |
| commit | c1a0664e2fe5210293ae3fb13151ce1f32855339 (patch) | |
| tree | ee595183a3caf9fcdd1d81d5ea9e354c45c5310b | |
| parent | 39d305bae7396bba7644299895d857dc87af3581 (diff) | |
| download | summain-c1a0664e2fe5210293ae3fb13151ce1f32855339.tar.gz | |
Add paragraph to explain st_ino and st_dev normlization,
which will be implemented next.
| -rw-r--r-- | summain.1 | 7 |
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@@ -31,4 +31,11 @@ Only some inode fields are included. It does not make sense to compare, for example, the access time, so that is not included. .PP +The inode and device number fields will not be reported accurately. +Instead, they are normalized so that manifests are useful after the files +have been restored from backups. +Accurate numbers would mean everything seems to have changed. +Normalized means that there will be no differences. +The numbers are reported so that hard links can be checked. +.PP Directories named on the command line will be recursed automatically. |